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LibriVox recording of The Shuttle, by Frances Hodgson Burnett read by Tabithat
Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American multimillionaire marries an impoverished English baronet and goes to live in England. She all but loses contact with her family in America. Years later her younger sister Bettina, beautiful, intelligent and extremely rich, goes to England to find what has happened to her sister. She finds Rosalie shabby and dispirited, cowed by her husband's ill treatment. Bettina sets about to rectify matters. She meets Lord Mount Dunstan, an impoverished earl, who lives nearby and they fall in love, but he cannot speak because it would look as if he were after her money...
This is a romance but it is also about the rejuvenating effects of Americans and American money on a somewhat decadent English aristocracy.
(Summary by Tabithat)
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Artist/Composer: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Date: 2010-02-23
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: LibriVox; fiction; shuttle
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
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| Chapter 01 The Weaving of the Shuttle |
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| Chapter 02 A Lack of Perception |
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| Chapter 03 Young Lady Anstruthers |
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| Chapter 04 A Mistake of the Postboy's |
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| Chapter 05 On Both Sides of the Atlantic |
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| Chapter 06 An Unfair Endowment |
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| Chapter 07 On Board the Meridiana |
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| Chapter 08 The Second Class Passenger |
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| Chapter 09 Lady Jane Grey |
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| Chapter 10 Is Lady Anstruthers at Home? |
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| Chapter 11 I Thought You Had All Forgotten |
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| Chapter 12 Ughtred |
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| Chapter 13 One of the New York Dresses |
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| Chapter 14 In the Gardens |
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| Chapter 15 The First Man |
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| Chapter 16 The Particular Incident |
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| Chapter 17 Townlinson and Sheppard |
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| Chapter 18 The Fifteenth Eart of Mount Dunstan |
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| Chapter 19 Spring in Bond Street |
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| Chapter 20 Things Occur in Stornham Village |
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| Chapter 21 Kedgers |
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| Chapter 22 One of Mr Vanderpoel's Letters |
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| Chapter 23 Introducing G. Selden |
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| Chapter 24 The Political Economy of Stornham |
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| Chapter 25 We began to marry them my good fellow |
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| Chapter 26 What it must be to you - just you |
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| Chapter 27 Life |
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| Chapter 28 Setting Them Thinking |
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| Chapter 29 The Thread of G Selden |
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| Chapter 30 A Return |
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| Chapter 31 She Would Not |
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| Chapter 32 A Great Ball |
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| Chapter 33 For Lady Jane |
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| Chapter 34 Red Godwyn |
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| Chapter 35 The Tidal Wave |
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| Chapter 36 By the Roadside Everywhere |
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| Chapter 37 Closed Corridors |
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| Chapter 38 At Shandy's |
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| Chapter 39 On the Marshes |
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| Chapter 40 Don't Go On with This |
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| Chapter 41 She Would Do Something |
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| Chapter 42 In the Ballroom |
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| Chapter 43 His Chance |
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| Chapter 44 A Footstep |
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| Chapter 45 The Passing Bell |
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| Chapter 46 Listening |
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| Chapter 47 I have no word or look to remember |
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| Chapter 48 The Moment |
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| Chapter 49 At Stornham and at Broadmorlands |
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| Chapter 50 The Primeval Thing |
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Reviewer:
TheBookworm -
Subject:
Whoops
This is an fine reading of an outstanding novel. Once again the admirable team at LibriVox bring us a largely forgotten masterpiece. Thank you!
TheBookworm (Manchester, UK)
Reviewer:
ListeninginChicago -
Subject:
Gripping story with a dose of social commentary
Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_May_Alcott, and Frances Hodgson Burnett was English and wrote The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett), but otherwise I agree totally with TheBookworm's comments - this is real treat by an excellent reader.
Betty Vanderpoel has everything that money can buy, plus she is beautiful, confident, perceptive and wise - all that we pour into our vision of the "woman who has it all." But what she wants most is out of reach simply because she is a "woman who has it all."
Lord Mount Dunstan's estate was squandered by his ancestor's bad living. Yet somehow he has broken from the past and inherited the strong character and good morals which years earlier made his family great. He deserves something better than a lonely life on an impoverished estate, but his pride keeps him from what could be his for the asking.
It's an effective framework to compare old England and new America. But don't let the prospect of a little social commentary scare you - at the bottom, it is a gripping story filled with surprises and engaging characters that had me sitting in the car many nights after my evening commute was over because I just "had to hear" the end of the chapter.